Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo

A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry (Suny Series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies)

If you, or someone you love, is suffering from a mental disorder, or manic depression, you owe it to yourself to become as informed as possible about the disease. Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo may be a source of good information for you.

Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo


A powerful, sophisticated, and original critique on how the disciplines of law and psychiatry behave and on how the mental health and justice systems operate, Punishing the Mentally Ill reveals where, how, and why the identity and humanity of persons with psychiatric disorders are consciously and unconsciously denied. Author Bruce A. Arrigo contends that despite periodic and well-intentioned efforts at reform, the current law-psychiatry system functions to punish the mentally ill for being different. The book synthesizes a wide range of mainstream and critical literature in sociology, law, philosophy, history, psychology, and psychoanalysis to establish a new theory of punishment at the law-psychiatry divide. To situate the analysis, enduring psycholegal issues are explored including the meaning of mental illness, definitions and predictions of dangerousness, the ethics of advocacy, the rights to community-based treatment, the logic of forensic courtroom verdicts, transcarceration, and the execution of mentally disordered offenders among others. Punishing the Mentally Ill shows that current mental disability law research, programming, and policy is seriously flawed and that wholesale reform is necessary if the goals of citizen justice, social well-being, and humanism are to be realized



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Abyss to Zenith -- Up From Insanity by Reagan Smith | Almost A Revolution by Paul S. Appelbaum | Competence, Condemnation, and Commitment by Robert F. Schopp | Conducting Insanity Evaluations, Second Edition by Richard Rogers, Daniel W. Shuman | The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut | Ethics of Psychiatry by Rem B. Edwards | Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis | Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault | Madness and Modernism by Louis A. Sass | Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin | Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness by Peter McCandless | Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Randy Starr | I'm Not Suffering from Insanity... I'm Enjoying Every Minute of It! by Karen Scalf Linamen | The Other Side of Sight by Jon D. Gemma | Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester | The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester | Psychological Evaluations for the Courts by Gary B. Melton (Editor), John Petrila, Norman G. Poythress, Christopher Slobogin | Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo | Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. by Richard J. Bonnie, John C., Jr Jeffries, Peter W. Low | Wild Beasts & Idle Humours by Daniel N. Robinson Adult Bipolar Disorders by Mitzi Waltz | The Bipolar Child by Demitri Papolos, Janice Papolos | Bipolar Disorder by James T. Stout | Bipolar Disorders: A Guide to Helping Children & Adolescents by Mitzi Waltz | Bipolar Disorders by Mario Maj, Hagop S Akiskal , Juan José López-Ibor, Norman Sartorius | Bipolar Disorder Demystified by Lana R. Castle | Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families by Francis Mark Mondimore | The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide by David J. Miklowitz | Bipolar Medications by Husseini K. Manji, Charles L. Bowden, Robert H. Belmaker | Bipolar Puzzle Solution by Bryan L. Court, Gerald E. Nelson MD | Depression Sourcebook by Karen Bellenir, Rhonda Rhea | Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman | Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder by Stephen M. Stahl, Nancy Muntner | Fevers of the Mind by Avery Z. Conner | The Life of a Bipolar Child by Trudy Carlson | Manic-Depressive Illness by Frederick K. Godwin M.D., Kay Redfield Jamison | Neural Misfire by Jeff D. Kazmierczak | New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder by Jan Fawcett M.D., Bernard Golden Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfeld | Overcoming Depression and Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder) by Paul A. Wider | Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder by George T. Lynn | Surviving Manic Depression by E. Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable | Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? by Roger Granet, Elizabeth Ferber | Why Your Depression Isn't Getting Better by Michael R. Bartos | Win The Battle by Bob Olson, Melissa Olson | Yes You Can! by Richard Aaron Mead